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Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:26:16 +0000http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/how-not-to-tick-people-off-and-keep-them-coming-back-for-more/#comment-32559Using new windows to open off site links can be frustrating or not.

If I want to make sure, my readers finds their way back from a visit somewhere else, I may open them a new window, but a named one. This means that clicking many window opening links on my site, will paint all the off site stuff in the same window.

I’m not using this technique often though, just when I invite my visitors to take a short excursion in the middle of my text.

Ha. (Speaking as a programmer) all software has to do *something* automatically. What else is it going to do, sit there and do nothing? (Plenty of vaporware does that too, I suppose.)

There are always features of any software program that someone somewhere hates. You can then argue, well make the features customizable, and sure, that’s very nice. But here’s the trick. Let’s say I make the links “dead” (that is, mindlessly open where they are). Some people with certain browsers are trapped with this behavior because they do not have the option to change it. OK, so let’s say I make the links open somewhere else to resolve that. Now I’ll have the group of people who can’t control their tabs or new windows who don’t want this behavior coming after me.